SVEC is dedicated to eighteenth-century research.
Since its inception in 1955, over 500 books have been published within the SVEC series. Strongly international in focus, the SVEC series publishes scholarly work in English or French to advance learning and knowledge across a broad range of disciplines:
• History • History of ideas/Philosophy • History of the book • Theatre • Literature • Visual arts & Music • Science & Economics • Women’s studies
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Editorial board
An international team of scholars assures the academic quality of our books.
Author and editor resources
We welcome the submission of proposals for both monographs and edited themed volumes in either English or French.
Books in 2011
These are the books we’re publishing in 2011!
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Published and forthcoming
Just published
Voltaire et l’écriture de l’histoire: un enjeu politique
Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet
Bien qu’il participe à une redéfinition de la pratique historiographique à l’Age classique, on s’est peu interrogé sur l’art de ‘Voltaire l’historien’. M. Méricam-Bourdet découvre et examine dans les écrits historiques de Voltaire une vision réfléchie du pouvoir et des enjeux du politique.
Coming soon
Reading newspapers: press and public in eighteenth-century Britain and America
Uriel Heyd
In their first century of uninterrupted publication, newspapers reached an all-embracing readership: male and female, noble and artisan, in both town and country. Uriel Heyd examines this vibrant new print medium in British and American contexts, and investigates its political, social and cultural implications.